I was off work last week to spend time with family at the beach. The vacation was amazing, and I was thankful to get away, but when we arrived in the Dominican Republic, we encountered something we ...

In an image he provided, Sully Sullivan, a graduate student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, collected sea samples in the Atlantic in July 2024. A 5,500-mile blob of ...

Seaweed is a general term that describes algae and marine plants that grow along rocky shorelines around the world. There are many types, including red (Rhodophyta), green (Chlorophyta), blue-green, ...

Sargassum is spreading rapidly across the Atlantic, reshaping coastlines and worrying many communities. Normally helpful to ocean life, it has recently grown to record levels in some areas while ...

Seaweed farmers in Indonesia are losing out on revenue from their harvests as a result of erratic weather patterns and warming waters — signs of climate change impacts. The warming seas encourage the ...

A 5,500-mile blob of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean that has menaced beaches across the Caribbean and Florida in recent years is exploding in size, while a second patch farther north is declining ...